NOAA Fisheries on Wednesday said it was disappointed the Maine Lobstermen’s Association pulled its support from the federal plan to implement stronger protections for right whales, but did not specifically address the lobster association’s criticisms of the science used to develop the plan.

LAWRENCE — A Lawrence man arrested in connection with the death of a 13-year-old Amesbury girl he allegedly left at Lawrence General Hospital will soon face arraignment on a new charge – illegal distribution of the man-made, deadly opioid fentanyl.

BOSTON — A day after Waltham-based Raytheon and the aerospace company United Technologies Corporation announced plans for a blockbuster merger, Gov. Charlie Baker said he does not yet know where in Massachusetts the new company will be located.

NORTH ANDOVER — The sheep weren’t the only ones losing layers to keep cool at the 47th Annual Sheep Shearing Festival Sunday, as children and parents stripped off their jackets and tied them around their waists as the sun finally made an appearance.

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BOSTON — Former Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts will soon announce he won’t launch a 2020 presidential campaign, according to sources familiar with his plans. They did not say why he decided against a run.

Communities in the Merrimack Valley are getting a cut of the $40 million the Baker-Polito administration is providing in additional funding for road construction and transportation improvement projects this year.

Columbia Gas announced Tuesday morning that the company has completed the gas pipeline replacement portion of the restoration effort in the wake of last month's natural gas disaster in the Merrimack Valley.

HAVERHILL — Ever since the state reopened the historic Rocks Village Bridge in 2013 after major repairs, a number of tall trucks have come in contact with sections of overhead steel pieces of the bridge.

HAVERHILL — When Haverhill resident and Seabrook Police Officer John Giarrusso got the call on his police radio, he raced his cruiser to Seabrook Beach, where swimmers were being rescued from a rip current that claimed the lives of a Methuen couple.

BOSTON – With a raft of advocates and lawmakers huddled around the desk in his ceremonial office, Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday signed a law to allow family members to petition the courts to suspend gun ownership rights of someone they believe to be a danger.

BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker gave voice Monday to a potential “grand bargain” addressing issues raised by ballot questions, but leaders of the House and Senate said reducing the sales tax, the topic of one question, is not in the cards this year.

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Mar 13, 2018

President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.

BOSTON – Staffing at the state's alcohol regulating agency has failed to keep up with the proliferation of new drinking establishments over the past several years, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg told lawmakers on Tuesday, asking them for increased funding.

A commuter rail spokesman said today that the historical tidal surge and continuing work to remove snow from around the tracks forced cancellation of six trains operating on the Newburyport and Rockport lines.

A report this week detailing widespread abuse of sick time in the Essex County Sheriff’s Department that lasted six years and cost taxpayers nearly $1.1 million drew a no comment Wednesday from a spokeswoman for Attorney General Maura Healey, who declined to say whether Healey would open a c…

BOSTON -- Gov. Charlie Baker is calling on the Senate to investigate allegations that Senate President Stanley Rosenberg's husband sexually assaulted and harassed several men, including some with business on Beacon Hill.

MERRIMAC - A neighbor who saw smoke pouring from an apartment building, and police officers on the scene coaxed a second-floor resident to jump out a window of her burning apartment building to safety this morning.

Bob Fabri keeps two photographs taped to the inside of the doors of his car. One is of his grandson, Daniel Amor, who died of a heroin overdose in 2015. The other is of his wife, Lucille, who died away a few months later from a septic infection. Fabri kisses the photos every morning when he …

SALEM — If the food trucks this past weekend weren’t enough of an indicator, then perhaps the hulking cruise ship pulling into Salem Harbor Monday morning was as clear an indicator as any that Halloween has begun in Salem.

BOSTON — With tens of millions of dollars in campaign spending expected to flow into Massachusetts next year ahead of ballot questions ranging from a “millionaires tax” to a $15-per-hour minimum wage, activists want to limit contributions from out-of-state donors.

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Newburyport - John Matthew McVey, 90, of Newburyport, formerly of North Andover, died early Saturday Morning at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport. He was the beloved husband of 60 years to Jean C. (Milner) McVey. Born in Andover, November 2, 1928, he was one of three sons of the late Edwar…

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